Our International Tour to England was a Huge Success.... We connected with a youth theatre group and shared workshops. Performed our play in a gorgeous studio theatre in Somerset. Made friends with UK teens. Cooked a meal together in the youth hostel. Hiked the Somerset countryside. Explored the new-age town of Glastonbury. Got a private [...]
A Journal of the Centauri International Writer's Tour to Scotland, August 2013 by Julie. Friday 23 August We arrived in Edinburgh after an uneventful flight, and transferred by coach to our hostel, where we stored our bags for the day before setting out immediately on a sightseeing adventure! We walked through the new part of [...]
This was our first opportunity to film, and the campers took shots of each character wandering the beach. We had the area to ourselves the entire time. Our movie is called 'Hiraeth' - a Welsh word, for which there is no English equivalent. It means a longing for home so great that the person suffering from it can even sicken or die. We wrote the word in pebbles on the beach, then filmed it as the sun set over the sea. We always hope for a spectacular sunset on every tour, but rarely have we seen one as stunning as this. It was a magical, mystical end to a wonder-filled day.